Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISCure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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